According to Neville Garrick, he would write out the lyrics in this notebook as Marley was playing his guitar, composing the music and lyrics for his songs. These lyrics would help Marley in remembering what he had sung, allow him to go back to the words and amend them as needed and they also served as a prompt in the recording studio. In a recent interview, Garrick shed some light on Bob Marley's composition style: When him go and write a song, he pick up a guitar then tell somebody like me that I must write down the lyrics which we think good. And I say to Bob, But I cannot choose...That's kinda too heavy an honor to put on me to decide which line is better. What I'd rather do, I said to Bob, we must get the tape and we'll tape it and I'll write down everything that you sing. And then we'll go through and choose...Him like it when you participate and when you have an opinion. Him don't like "yes people"...

As the band's Art Director, Neville Garrick assumed responsibility for lighting the stage shows. In a recent interview, Garrick said of his role in the band I feel I colored the music. I colored Bob's music from a visual perspective. What I basically was trying to do with my life was to set a visual interpretation of the mood of where Bob was taking the music... One of Garrick's primary concerns was that the message of Marley's music would be lost: Bob was playing a lot of times to, I would say, seventy percent, even more at times, young white college audiences. My fear was that maybe the music could be taken not for fully what it meant, if the visuals weren't right. In other words if they were just going on the beat and having a good time, smoking and getting high, but I started thinking about having Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie and African symbols...That was my projection, to add to the whole thing by visually projecting what the music was dealing with by using symbology and with light and stage decor...